Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two

by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts (Introduction)

From the Bestselling Author of Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality

In the first volume of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Seth presented an indepth picture of the origin of all life — from the inner dream world to the vast display of material creation. Here, in Volume Two, Seth continues his explanation of the physical world as an ongoing self-creation — a direct and intentional outgrowth of the wisdom of the life forms that inhabit it, including humanity. He expands upon his vision of a thoroughly animate universe, where virtually every possibility not only exists, but is constantly encouraged to achieve its highest potential. In his typical awe-inspiring manner, Seth sheds light on many controversial and complex subjects, including:

• The ways in which our religions have stifled the human spirit
• Surprising insight into life’s meaning and purpose
• The genetic basis of faith, hope, and charity
• The pursuit of pleasure as a fundamental human need
• How each species keeps millions of characteristics within its genetic bank for various contingencies

“Dreams are mental work and play combined, psychic and emotionally rich creative dramas. They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization . . .” — Jane Roberts, Speaking for Seth

About the Author

Jane Roberts (May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984) grew up in Saratoga Springs, New York where she attended Skidmore College. Jane was a prolific writer in a variety of genres including poetry, short stories, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction. Her international bestselling non-fiction books include Seth Speaks, The Nature of Personal Reality, The Nature of the Psyche, and The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. Her enormously popular novels include The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, and Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (now published as The Oversoul Seven Trilogy). Yale University Library maintains a collection of Jane’s writings, journals, poetry, and audio and video recordings that were donated after her death by her husband, Robert F. Butts.

Praise for The Seth Books, by Jane Roberts

“The Seth books present an alternate map of reality with a new diagram of the psyche . . . useful to all explorers of consciousness.” — Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“Seth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. He remains a constant source of knowledge and inspiration in my life.” — Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

“I would like to see the Seth books as required reading for anyone on their spiritual pathway. The amazing in-depth information in the Seth books is as relevant today as it was in the early ’70s when Jane Roberts first channeled this material.” — Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life

“Seth’s teachings had an important influence on my life and work, and provided one of the initial inspirations for writing Creative Visualization.” — Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization

“The Seth books were of great benefit to me on my spiritual journey and helped me to see another way of looking at the world.” — Gerald G. Jampolsky, author of Love is Letting Go of Fear

“As you read Seth’s words, you will gain more than just new ideas. Seth’s energy comes through every page — energy that expands your consciousness and changes your thoughts about the nature of reality.

Genres: Spirituality, Metaphysics, New Age, Nonfiction

333 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. After attending public schools, she attended Skidmore College. She wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and novels. When she was in her 30s, she and her husband began to record what she said were messages from a personality named "Seth", and she wrote several books about the experience.

Reviews

[Kimber · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is heavily bogged down by Rob's excessive commentary, without which "Dreams, Evolution &Value Fulfillment" could have contained only one volume. Reading Seth can be cumbersome enough.

[Kelly Enck · Rating 5 out of 5]

The "Seth Material" has enhanced every aspect of my life as promised, and this was the eighth and final book for me in the series. Either we have a God— a so-called, "man in the sky" the way old religion tells us, or we have an "Unknown Reality"— which we are all contributing to in ways we don't comprehend yet.

My perspective has changed from this one book, "Dreams, "Evolutions," and Value Fulfillment. Vol. Two.

I now remember nearly all my dreams, and I can now awaken within them, as the dreamer of the dream.
No small feat by the way and I created as Seth suggested a "Biphasic sleep" schedule.

I love this last dream I had:
I was a goose flying to migrate and straggling behind. I heard myself "out loud" whining and suffering to catch up with the flock. I woke up in my dream and said to myself, "Change your dream, join the flock." But, I said back, "no, I need to experience this suffering to understand what is needed to change it. I learned in this experience how important and powerful the "group is together", flying soaring, having fun. Isolation is not ideal, which I do so much of as a writer and a soloist most of the time.

The next morning I woke up feeling the extreme importance of this dream. I could not wait to engage more with groups of people.

I have a Hypnotherapy Practice in Doylestown PA, 2 hours from NYC, I utilize the Seth Material, and my session is usually 2-3 hours and resolves life long issues in just one session. If you are interested in this amazing quantum physics experience, check it out here at https://doylestownhypnosis.com/ or call me for a free phone consultation to hear more about it 215-840-0684, tell me you found me through this review and I will be ticked!

I also wrote a book about my wild adventures dating and looking for God, LOL! You'll love it, check it out "From Hollywood to God" on Amazon.com
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Love Kelly Granite Enck, Hypnotherapist, and Adventurer of the Mind! Let's be friends!

[Priscilla Hartl · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the Seth books are a whole new way of thinking and it is all so personal what you get out of them. I found this one quite full of Robs notes and the terrific challenges they were facing with understanding Janes illness. It is as usual completely new ideas and concepts not being held by mainstream consciousness, that compels me to read these books , and I strongly feel that can and will solve the worlds problems if utilized . It was Einstein who said , "you cant solve problems with the same thinking that created them" or close to that line anyway, .......and i think its true! These books by Seth open doors to new perceptions, and we need them more than ever today!

[Tom Palmer]

The Seth series is long and complicated. In conversations supposed "channeled" through Jane Roberts, the Seth personality/entity reveals his own take on metaphysical reality. The material really does twist your brain and forces it to consider new ways of looking at the world. Be prepared to throw away all you pre-existing assumptions about life and the universe. I'll tell you now, that the information will take time to absorb and process and that several readings might be in order. But over time, the books seemed to have much validity. My advice is to dive in and glean what you can at any level.

[James Sidaway · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Seth puts it "Value Fulfillment" is the main drive of all realities.
Fulfilling the designed spiritual blueprint for your life would be the basic achievement of value-fulfillment. Anything above and beyond this would be expanding your soul-fragment even more.
Seth claimed that Jane was constantly surprising him going well beyond what he recalled doing when he was her... wow! What did that mean?
Another important message directed to the thUgtopians in this book was how murder and participation to murder whether achieved or not changes the soul-fragment. What this does is begins or accelerates the decay process of shrinking the soul-fragment. When a thUgtopian or just a thug murders another, they can feel that something inside them has changed. This is irreversible, and if that internal feeling of shock does not shake enough sense into a thUg, then spiritual decay accelerates into an eternal state of unworthiness. Upon death, there will be little or no growth that is notable (killing and murder will become the norm, where death doesn't truly exist, it becomes a waisted fragment beyond being a thug-tool in physical reality) and such a fragment will be only worthy for re-adsorption back into the source-Self.
I realize that this is not what the thUgtopian priests tell their level-gaining masons and eastern-stars as they murder their way towards techno-thUg godhood, but it is not their priest's fault that they are a thUg. I was asked to join Demo-lay as a teen, but I rejected being blind-folded and led around in circles by the future-thUgs in front of me. These thUgtopians think they are rising their fake-Utopia out of the ashes of the good-willed sheeple upon Earth, but they are just filtering out their eternal validity from All-That-Is.
This is the general message that Seth has hidden within this last, Jane-published Seth-Book.

[Ryan Hunter · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the more information poor of the Seth works. Rob really shouldn't have contributed to this book at all, the information provided in the notes was largely irrelevant to Seth's lecture material.

[L]

Started Oct 1 but then got derailed by the Seth Intensive Course and Intensive Dreams Course (assigned readings).

Jan 16: Been wanting to reread Seth Speaks and NoPR so I think I will put reading this book on hold to reread the first two.

[Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought it was time I recentered in my own mind, for which purpose I choose the Seth books. This book talks about how we create our own realities, including the unwelcome results that can come when a person holds conflicting beliefs. Much of this book deals with the attempts of Jane and her husband to reconcile Seth's teachings with Jane's physical challenges. The things happening in their lives illustrate the points being made.

It's best not to start reading Seth books late in the series. They assume you know the basic concepts and terminology. Best to start with THE SETH MATERIAL or SETH SPEAKS, the first books.

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some really, really beautiful paragraphs in this book, but some utter dribble as well, which is a shame. All of the "channeled" material given to Jane from 'Seth' is fascinating and complex, anything added by Jane or her husband Rob I find to be sort of inane and unnecessary.

[Marius · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential. It starts with reading, and then you go beyond the mind, if and when you dare to.

[Lydia]

Excellent